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- My comments on nose-rings, dress codes... 9:45 PM Nov 8th from web
- "Reforming the Humanities Ph.D." 4 author study on funding, time-to-degree, to be released as a book: RT @ 5:58 AM Oct 12th from web
- Chinua Achebe has a new book of essays out, on life in Nigeria and America. 12:37 PM Oct 10th from web
- Glissant and Chamoiseau on Obama 12:25 PM Oct 9th from Echofon
- Highbrow, Middlebrow, Lowbrow. Column on the decline of American middle class interest in "great books": 8:21 AM Oct 6th from bit.ly
- Judith Butler on the crisis in the University of California system: 1:39 PM Oct 5th from bit.ly
- Amartya Sen's new book, "A Theory of Justice," reviewed in Chronicle A sustained engagement with Rawls. 6:03 AM Oct 3rd from bit.ly
- John McWhorter is frustrated with African American studies departments, but not opposed to them outright. 5:59 AM Oct 3rd from bit.ly
- The thing that makes great writers great often comes from their editors. True of T.S. Eliot, true of Raymond Carver... 5:55 AM Oct 3rd from bit.ly
- Yet another essay by someone on the ostensible decline of the English department (doing just fine at my school) 1:30 PM Sep 24th from bit.ly
- Michael Dirda revisits J.R. Ackerley's "Hindoo Holiday," a deliciously strange travel narrative a la Forster. 1:26 PM Sep 24th from bit.ly
- Positive review of Declan Kiberd's new book, "Ulysses and Us" in the Chronicle of Higher Ed. 1:23 PM Sep 24th from bit.ly
- 800 people came out to see Marjane Satrapi at the Free Library of Philadelphia. Also in the house: Mayor Michael Nutter.7:54 PM Sep 23rd from web
- Michael Berube lays it down: "Cultural studies hasn't had much of an impact at all." RT @ 7:37 PM Sep 21st from web
- @ When I first saw @ I briefly considered parodying its pomposity. Now I'm impressed -- 7000 followers; no joke.3:22 PM Sep 21st from web in reply to mattthomas
- Thanks @ "It’s not really Žižek." (Sorry for confusion, readers. Perhaps @ is an elaborate parody, starting to slip?)9:43 AM Sep 21st from web
- Has someone hacked Zizek's Twitter feed? RT @ "I am on the toilet."8:17 AM Sep 21st from web
- Do not, under any circumstances, subject yourself to the film version of "The Watchmen." Tedious & heavy-handed. Do "District 9" instead.8:07 AM Sep 20th from web
- "Words strain,/ Crack and sometimes break, slip, slide, perish,.../ Decay with imprecision, will not stay in place,/ will not stay still."8:38 AM Sep 18th from web
- T.S. Eliot on Twitter: "Not here/ Not here the darkness, in this twittering world./ Descend lower...Into the world of perpetual solitude"10:11 AM Sep 17th from web
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- Name amardeep singh
- Location Philly Suburbs
- Web http://www.lehigh...
- Bio I teach literature at Lehigh University, blog a little, and am raising a kid.
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